He found himself wandering the grocery store, aimlessly pushing a cart that held nothing. The fluorescent lights hummed, amplifying the dull ache in his head. Sarah's news of moving to New York still echoed in his mind. He kept walking down the aisles, staring at things he didn't need and didn't want, the vibrant colors of the produce failing to spark any interest.

He grabbed a bag of chips and a carton of ice cream, knowing he wouldn’t eat either. The thought of cooking felt impossible. He paid for his items and walked back to his apartment, the grocery bag weighing heavy in his hand.

Emotion: listless

Cluster: Fatigue / Lethargy
PC1 (Valence): -1.03 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -1.07

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion listless. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 listless stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the listless emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the listless vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
0.325
давно0.280
unremarkable0.270
lately0.266
either0.266
Suppressed:
B-0.460
P-0.331
l-0.312
C-0.292
👏-0.273